"We always have the community dropping in saying 'Oh, I used to go to (the former Lismore) high school here' and things like that," she said.

"I think this community project, this grassroots thing, will celebrate the connections people have with these buildings.

"We're all excited to be involved."

RealArtWorks president Zeb Schulz said the Arts NSW-funded The Building Still Lives project would "explore the relationship between buildings and the narratives they hold".

"This is the first stage of the project. There'll be three teams collecting stories and professional media-makers working with emerging media-makers with disability, working with TAFE students and Lismore High School students to form teams collecting these yarns," he said.

"We'll have badges on the day stamped with people's connection to the building, when they attended and that sort of thing. We're hoping that will help create connections with people on the day."

Community video stories, photographs and letters from Big Yarn Day will be collated and contribute to creating light projections in a multimedia performance that will transform the buildings into digital art pieces during a festival in 2016.

Big Yarn Day

November 7

Corner of Magellan and Keen Sts, Lismore

Conservatorium's annual open day combined with The Building Still Lives project